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Driver struck, killed while changing tire
INDIANOLA -- The Kansas man accused of leaving the scene of a accident that killed a Cambridge man early Saturday morning has posted bail and is no longer being held in the McCook Police Department jail.
Kyle Serocki, 24, of Overland Park, Kan., was arrested on a charge of leaving the scene of an injury or fatality accident, and posted 10 percent of a $50,000 bond.
Killed in the two-vehicle accident was Nicholas Dean Mead, 25, of Cambridge. Mead was pronounced dead at Community Hospital of McCook, having been transported by Indianola rescue personnel, assisted by personnel from the McCook Fire Department, from the accident scene four miles west of Indianola on U.S. Highway 6&34.
Mead, who was driving eastbound, died after he pulled onto the south shoulder of the highway to investigate a blown tire or change a flat tire and was allegedly struck by Serocki's westbound pickup about 2:15 a.m. Serocki's pickup was found about 5 1/2 miles further west, parked on the north shoulder of the highway at the Strunk Memorial Rest Area a mile east of McCook.
Red Willow County Attorney Paul Wood pronounced Mead dead at the hospital. Mead's body has been transported to Scottsbluff for an autopsy.
Services for Nicholas Mead will be Wednesday at 1 p.m., at Calvary Baptist Church in Cambridge. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Cambridge.
Wood said that leaving the scene of an injury or fatality accident is a IIIA felony. He said that, pending autopsy results and lab work by law enforcement officials, another charge or more charges could be filed against Serocki.
The accident was investigated by officers of the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office and Nebraska State Patrol officers from McCook and Holdrege, assisted at the scene by Indianola fire and rescue, McCook ALS (Advanced Life Support) ambulance and Red Willow Western Rural Fire Department personnel.
Mead's death is the sixth traffic fatality in Red Willow County since July 5, when April Chancellor of McCook died after in an accident on Highway 83 three miles south of McCook on July 4.
Fourteen-year-old Cody Coats died in a two-vehicle accident on Aug. 18 as he was en route to classes at Southwest Public Schools.
Jason West of Limon, Colo., Fallon Dyer of Oberlin and Jessica Bovee-Gammuto of Cheyenne, Wyo, died Aug 23, in a single-car accident two miles south of McCook on Highway 83.